India ready to share its expertise, experience with the world: PM Modi at AI Summit in Paris
Paris/New Delhi, Feb 11 (FN Agency) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is developing AI applications for the public good and is ready to share its experience and expertise with the world. Addressing the audience at the AI Action Summit, at the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday, PM Modi said that loss of jobs is AI’s most feared disruption. “But history has shown that work does not disappear due to technology. Its nature changes and new types of jobs are created,” he added. To overcome this, the world needs to invest in skilling and re-skilling of the people “for an AI-driven future”. “AI is developing at an unprecedented scale and speed and being adapted and deployed even faster.
There is also a deep interdependence across borders. Therefore, there is a need for collective global efforts to establish governance and standards that uphold our shared values, address risks, and build trust,” he said, at the Summit that India is co-chairing with France. “AI is already reshaping our polity our economy our security and even our society. AI is writing the code for humanity in this century “AI can help transform millions of lives by improving health, education, agriculture and so much more. It can help create a world in which the journey to Sustainable Development Goals becomes easier and faster. To do this we must pool together resources and talent.
“We must develop opensource systems that enhance trust and transparency,” he said, and called for building quality data sets, free from biases and to democratise technology and create people centric applications.” PM Modi said there is need to address concerns related to cyber security, disinformation and deep fakes.“And we must also ensure that technology is rooted in local ecosystems for it to be effective and useful. “Today, India leads in AI adoption and techno-legal solutions on data privacy. We are developing AI applications for the public good. India is ready to share its experience and expertise to ensure that the AI future is for Good, and for All,” the PM said.